Richard Russo Returns to the Scene of the Crime

In his new novel, “Under the Falls,” a rock star’s homecoming becomes a dark reckoning with guilt, success, and the town he left behind.

The Tuesday Review

(Knopf)

Twenty-five years ago, Richard Russo dedicated his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls, to the filmmaker Robert Benton.

In an interview around that time, Russo said Benton had changed his life by getting him into screenwriting, and he wanted him to know there were no hard feelings.

The boundary between novels and screens is…